Meloni, Starmer, Macron currently polling ‘under water’. It is hard to know if such polls are truly accurate or politically biased.

YouGov is a example of a polling company which was founded by right wing members of the Conservative Party.

Here is an opinion on Reddit:

Is YouGov Impartial?

The owner of YouGov is Stephan Shakespeare. He co-founded the market research and opinion poll company in 2000 with Nadhim Zahawi, current Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry. Zahawi left the business specifically to stand for election as a Conservative candidate in 2010. Shakespeare was a failed Conservative candidate in 1997 for MP of Colchester.

Shakespeare was appointed by the Conservative government as Chairman of the Data Strategy Board (DSB). This is an advisory body which was set up to ‘maximise value of data for users across the UK’. He was also announced in 2012 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Cabinet Office ministers as leader of an Independent Review of Public Sector Information. He has also been a member of the Government’s Public Sector Transparency Board and shows on the most recent board minutes from 2015.

He was former owner of the centre-right political blog, ConservativeHome, now owned for Lord Ashcroft. He was also involved in other right-wing projects and web-sites including 18 Doughty Street, an online broadcast critiquing left-leaning commentary and opinion pieces.

YouGov has now expanded its involvement into market research businesses in the Middle East, the United States, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Asia.

YouGov brands itself as ‘What the world thinks’, but is it only selectively representing public opinion when its origins lie clearly on the right wing of politics?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/cwyx05/is_yougov_impartial/